Bill Text: NY S07061 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Enacts the empire state apprenticeship program; establishes the empire state apprenticeship tax credit program and grants the commissioner of the department of labor the power to administer such program; and creates the empire state apprenticeship tax credit (Part A); establishes the empire state apprenticeship grant program for small business and not-for-profit corporations (Part B).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-21 - REFERRED TO LABOR [S07061 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S07061-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7061 IN SENATE March 21, 2016 ___________ Introduced by Sen. GALLIVAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor AN ACT in relation to enacting the empire state apprenticeship program; to amend the labor law, in relation to establishing the empire state apprenticeship tax credit program and granting the commissioner of the department of labor the power to administer such program; and to amend the tax law, in relation to the empire state apprenticeship tax credit (Part A); to amend the labor law, in relation to establishing the empire state apprenticeship grant program for small business and not- for-profit corporations (Part B) The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "empire 2 state apprenticeship program". 3 § 2. This act enacts into law components of legislation relating to 4 the empire state apprenticeship program. Each component is wholly 5 contained within a Part identified as Parts A through B. The effective 6 date for each particular provision contained within such Part is set 7 forth in the last section of such Part. Any provision in any section 8 contained within a Part, including the effective date of the Part, which 9 makes reference to a section "of this act", when used in connection with 10 that particular component, shall be deemed to mean and refer to the 11 corresponding section of the Part in which it is found. Section four of 12 this act sets forth the general effective date of this act. 13 PART A 14 Section 1. The labor law is amended by adding a new section 25-c to 15 read as follows: 16 § 25-c. Power to administer the empire state apprenticeship tax credit 17 program. (a) The commissioner is authorized to establish and administer 18 the empire state apprenticeship tax credit program to provide tax incen- 19 tives to qualified and certified employers for employing qualified 20 apprentices pursuant to an apprenticeship agreement registered with the EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05401-05-6